Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butch podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Claude Harmon for everyone listening in the United States. Hope
Speaker 1: everyone had a good Thanksgiving break. I saw some stuff
Speaker 1: on social media this week on X Twitter, I just I.
Speaker 2: Can't get used to calling it X.
Speaker 1: One of the sites I follow Practical Golf John Sherman,
Speaker 1: who stuff I really really like. He posted some stuff
Speaker 1: that really really kind of resonated with me about how
Speaker 1: to play, something that I'm always talking about on the pod. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean technique hugely important helps to have better golf swing,
Speaker 1: but as I keep saying, everybody's trying to make their
Speaker 1: golf swing better. And I just wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: go through some of these things because it is a
Speaker 1: lot of really good information and knowledge that I think
Speaker 1: can help you, and I wanted to kind of expand
Speaker 1: on it. So one of the first things, a typical
Speaker 1: PJ Tour player lands the ball twenty feet from the
Speaker 1: pin from one hundred to hundred and twenty five yards
Speaker 1: in the fairway, And I think that's really important to
Speaker 1: realize because they are so influenced when we watch golf
Speaker 1: on television, right, I think that is something that you
Speaker 1: know I've been involved in golf pretty much my entire life.
Speaker 1: But when I look at the average golfer and I
Speaker 1: look at the way the average golfer thinks about their
Speaker 1: own game and plays, I think they're very skewed by television, right.
Speaker 1: I think they're very skewed by television massively. From a
Speaker 1: distance standpoint, right, how far you feel like you hit
Speaker 1: the ball with your clubs? How far you hit a
Speaker 1: nine iron, how far you hit a seven iron, how
Speaker 1: far you hit a five iron? And I think it's
Speaker 1: easy to get caught into that trap because we watch
Speaker 1: so much golf on television. You've got the you know,
Speaker 1: the guys in the booth. You know, you've got Jim
Speaker 1: Manton Trevor and they throw it down to cult nose
Speaker 1: and they say.
Speaker 2: Cult, what's he got?
Speaker 1: And you know, he's got one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: yards and he's going to hit this club. You hear
Speaker 1: that enough times, right, and you hear that over and
Speaker 1: over and over again, because a lot of the distances
Speaker 1: on the PGA Tour iron wise, are the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some longer hitters and some guys that can
Speaker 1: really really vomit. But I think once you get to
Speaker 1: the Elite Tour level. Distance wise, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of players that you're going to be watching on television
Speaker 1: that hit a seven iron the same disc, that's a
Speaker 1: hit a five iron the same distance, right, And I
Speaker 1: think you hear these numbers, they are arbitrary numbers for
Speaker 1: your game because they're somebody else. It's Roy McElroy, you
Speaker 1: know from that distance. It's not us, right, it's not
Speaker 1: us mere mortals. And then you have this thing that
Speaker 1: I think one of the great things about tech, and
Speaker 1: one of the great things about the data age that
Speaker 1: we're in is now we can kind of look at
Speaker 1: data and quantify, you know, what is a good shot
Speaker 1: and what is a bad shot. And I think most
Speaker 1: golfers are very skewed in what they think a good
Speaker 1: shot is. So if the best players in the world
Speaker 1: in the men's game are averaging twenty feet from inside
Speaker 1: of one hundred to one hundred and twenty five yards,
Speaker 1: I do think it it can somewhat change what you
Speaker 1: think is a good shot. So if the best players
Speaker 1: in the world from one hundred yards to one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five are averages around twenty feet, if you
Speaker 1: are a higher handicapped player hit the green. Hitting the
Speaker 1: green is a good shot. Right from one hundred yards
Speaker 1: it is a good shot. Let yourself off the hook.
Speaker 1: Don't beat yourself up if you're one hundred yards out.
Speaker 1: If you're one hundred and twenty five yards out and
Speaker 1: you hit it to forty feet, maybe given your skill set,
Speaker 1: maybe given what you can and can't do, and maybe
Speaker 1: the control that you have over your golf swing and
Speaker 1: control that you have over your golf ball, maybe from
Speaker 1: those distances one hundred to one twenty five, just basically
Speaker 1: hitting the target, hitting the green, having the ball finished
Speaker 1: anywhere on that green, maybe that's a good shot for you,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's a good shot for a lot of
Speaker 1: golfers as well. So I think golfers in general, and
Speaker 1: I think the higher the handicap, the harder on themselves
Speaker 1: they are, right, The higher the handicap, the higher the expectation,
Speaker 1: the greater the expectation, and I think there are times
Speaker 1: where if you're more realistic about your skill set, more
Speaker 1: realistic about what you can and can't do, it's going
Speaker 1: to make the playing of the game easier because I
Speaker 1: just don't think you're gonna put so much pressure on
Speaker 1: yourself if you're struggling to break one hundred for the
Speaker 1: first time, if you're struggling to break ninety for the
Speaker 1: first time, if you're struggling to break eighty for the
Speaker 1: first time. Hitting greens anywhere on the greens is a
Speaker 1: good shot. Giving yourself a chance to putt for a birdie,
Speaker 1: giving yourself a chance to put for a birdie anywhere
Speaker 1: on the green.
Speaker 2: Is a good shot.
Speaker 1: Given how difficult hitting greens is, even from the middle
Speaker 1: of the fairway right dead flat lie no end one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five yards out, the amount of players
Speaker 1: that consistently hit the green from that distance is much
Speaker 1: smaller than you think. The amount of players that not
Speaker 1: g it close. And we hear that all the time.
Speaker 1: Player you know, he's got one hundred yards in his hands,
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten yards in his hands, hits it's
Speaker 1: about ten feet. What did the announcers say, Eh, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be happy with that. Yeah, he's probably not.
Speaker 1: But the statistics and the data show you that that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good shot and is a really good shot
Speaker 1: four or the best players in the world, So lowering
Speaker 1: your expectations, but also on the golf course. Managing your
Speaker 1: expectations right. You don't have to hit it to ten
Speaker 1: feet to improve your handicap. You don't have to hit
Speaker 1: it to five feet to break one hundreds for the
Speaker 1: first time. What you need to do is hit more
Speaker 1: greens right, hit more greens anywhere on the green. That
Speaker 1: is a win. So when you're standing in the fairway,
Speaker 1: if you can get the golf ball anywhere on the
Speaker 1: green as a massive, massive win. And then another stat
Speaker 1: that I saw, tour players average bogie eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the time from a recovery situation, most likely in the trees.
Speaker 1: They're out of position, they make bogie. They average bogie
Speaker 1: eighty percent.
Speaker 2: Of the time.
Speaker 1: Something I talk about on the pod all the time.
Speaker 1: One of the ways that you are going to lower
Speaker 1: your handicap is to make more bogies and eliminate the
Speaker 1: big numbers. So if eighty percent of tour players are
Speaker 1: averaging bogie from the trees, that means that they're probably
Speaker 1: playing way more conservative than you are. They're probably way
Speaker 1: less risk averse. Like most average golfers that are just
Speaker 1: trying to break one hundred ninety eighty, they're so hyper
Speaker 1: hyper aggressive when they get out of trouble or when
Speaker 1: they get into trouble, so as a result, they don't
Speaker 1: get out of trouble, and they compound a situation that
Speaker 1: maybe didn't need to just go so horribly wrong.
Speaker 2: Right, So.
Speaker 1: I say this on the pod all the time. I
Speaker 1: will keep saying this on the pod all the time.
Speaker 1: Get out of trouble in one shot, right, Just find
Speaker 1: a way to get out of trouble in one shot
Speaker 1: so that your next shot can be a risk somewhat
Speaker 1: free shot from the fairway from somewhat of a flatish lie.
Speaker 2: But it's not going to be.
Speaker 1: So you're trying to hit a recovery shot and you
Speaker 1: try and hit the hero shot, you don't pull it off.
Speaker 1: Now you have to hit what another recovery shot, right,
Speaker 1: And if you didn't make a good decision on the
Speaker 1: first one, you're probably not going to make a good
Speaker 1: decision on And I laughed because I was teaching. I
Speaker 1: teach a kid really good junior legit chance to play
Speaker 1: Division one college golf finish top ten in the state
Speaker 1: championship this year as a sophomore, I think it was
Speaker 1: a freshman last year, finished third, right, but he made
Speaker 1: two double bogies in the high school state championships individual
Speaker 1: two doubles and finished I think top ten, like seventh
Speaker 1: or eighth.
Speaker 2: Right, the two doubles, turn those into bogies.
Speaker 1: That's two shots better. Turned the two doubles into just pars.
Speaker 1: I mean, he probably would have finished second or third.
Speaker 1: And when I talked to him over text about it,
Speaker 1: I was looking at a scorecard. We were going back
Speaker 1: and forth after the first and for the two double
Speaker 1: bogies that he made, he said to me, it was
Speaker 1: the wrong decision. I made the wrong decision. It wasn't talent,
Speaker 1: It wasn't hours spent on the range, it wasn't technique,
Speaker 1: wasn't laying the shaft down, it wasn't shallowing it out.
Speaker 2: It wasn't getting to.
Speaker 1: Handle more forward and impact, all of the technical stuff
Speaker 1: that everybody's trying to work on in their golf swings.
Speaker 1: Here's a kid that's you know, he's a scratch golfer, right,
Speaker 1: it's probably a plus handicap.
Speaker 2: The kid's legit player.
Speaker 1: He's telling me, the two double bogies I made are
Speaker 1: from bad decisions. Yeah, you hit a bad shot to
Speaker 1: get himself into that position, right, But then what happened
Speaker 1: was twice. He compounded that situation and made it even worse.
Speaker 1: He didn't take the easy way out, he didn't hit
Speaker 1: it in the trees and say, Okay, eighty percent of
Speaker 1: tour players average bogies when they get into trouble. Right,
Speaker 1: he just said, I'm all in. I'm gonna try and
Speaker 1: be super aggressive, try and be a hero, try and
Speaker 1: do something crazy. And for two holes it didn't work,
Speaker 1: and he made two double bogies, and it hurt him.
Speaker 1: It cost him an opportunity to win a state championship.
Speaker 1: He's good enough to win one, finished top five last year,
Speaker 1: and he's only gotten better this year. But decision making
Speaker 1: on the golf course is hugely, hugely, hugely important. And
Speaker 1: I just think, if if we can all when we
Speaker 1: get into trouble, realize that the best players in the
Speaker 1: world eighty percent of the time make bogie, not par
Speaker 1: by the way bogie. So get into trouble, off the tee,
Speaker 1: get out of position wherever the mindset has to go. Okay,
Speaker 1: the worst I make here is bogie. Right, the worst
Speaker 1: I make here is bogie. And where is the easiest
Speaker 1: way for.
Speaker 2: Me to get out of jail? Here?
Speaker 1: Where's the path of least resistance? Where can I hit
Speaker 1: a shot to where my next one I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a clear, unobstructed view of the green from somewhat of
Speaker 1: a flatish fairway, lie and take my medicine. I made
Speaker 1: a bad swing, I got myself into the position, but
Speaker 1: what I'm not going to do is compound it and
Speaker 1: make it worse. So really really like that, That really
Speaker 1: really reson with me. Another slide that John put up
Speaker 1: that I really really liked. Typical tour player averages three
Speaker 1: point five birdies per round, and most of them are
Speaker 1: on the par fives, right, so scoring averages on tour
Speaker 1: par three's average round three just a little over par.
Speaker 1: Same with the par four scorings over par, and par
Speaker 1: five scoring is under par. So and these are just
Speaker 1: some basic numbers, but a kind of one to five
Speaker 1: handicap range is kind of going to be right around
Speaker 1: that one and a half birdie's per round. And then
Speaker 1: as the handicaps get higher, the amount of birdies per
Speaker 1: round you're going to make becomes almost non existent. So
Speaker 1: if handicap golfers that are kind of low single digits,
Speaker 1: they're not even averaging two birdies per round. So if
Speaker 1: you're trying to break one hundred for the first time,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to break ninety or eighty for the
Speaker 1: first time, if you're trying to break seventy for the
Speaker 1: first time, a realistic understanding as to how many birdies
Speaker 1: per round you're going to make. And I've said this before,
Speaker 1: I'll keep saying this, Make more pars and bogies, make
Speaker 1: more pars, make more bogies, not birdies, but also not
Speaker 1: doubles and triples. So not making eagles, not making birdies,
Speaker 1: not making doubles, not making triples. So what does that leave.
Speaker 1: That leaves pars and bogies. And I think if the
Speaker 1: focus can be on let me just throw a bunch
Speaker 1: of pars at them today, right, let me just try
Speaker 1: and make a bunch of pars. And I've talked about
Speaker 1: this before. If you're a higher handicapped golfer, try and
Speaker 1: bogie every hole, just trying bogie.
Speaker 2: Every single hole.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to break one hundred for the first time,
Speaker 1: play bogie golf.
Speaker 2: Try and bogue every hole.
Speaker 1: So the part three is you're trying to make fours
Speaker 1: par fourst you're trying to make fives and the par
Speaker 1: fives you're trying to make six.
Speaker 2: So if the par five's the goal is.
Speaker 1: To make a six, you need to hit driver off
Speaker 1: the tee, maybe hit a hybrid, maybe hit hybrid again,
Speaker 1: and then maybe you hit a nine iron a seven iron,
Speaker 1: and you've got a putt legit putt for birdie. Right,
Speaker 1: So having a realistic understanding as to what your capabilities are.
Speaker 2: But also I think given.
Speaker 1: Handicap ranges and given the fact that the best players
Speaker 1: in the world are making less than four birdies around
Speaker 1: and most of them are on the par five, So
Speaker 1: the par fives are the legit scoring chances.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's hard to make berdies on par threes. Why well,
Speaker 1: you would think it would be easy because those are
Speaker 1: the shortest holes, But that's where they're going to tuck
Speaker 1: the pins, and that's where the majority of golfers are
Speaker 1: just going to become hyper hyper hyper aggressive. So birdie
Speaker 1: averages on tour, everybody's BERTI in the par five. You've
Speaker 1: got three four In majors, sometimes you have two of those,
Speaker 1: but those are the legit chances. So when you're looking
Speaker 1: at your scorecards, I'll keep saying this. If you're tired
Speaker 1: of me saying this. If you think it's repetitive, good,
Speaker 1: it's my podcast. I'll keep saying it. Look at your
Speaker 1: par three scoring, look at your par five scoring. Don't
Speaker 1: be given tons of shots away on par fives, right,
Speaker 1: those are the legit chances you've got. I really liked
Speaker 1: when I saw this post from Practical Golf on X
Speaker 1: I just was like, Yeah, this is kind of the
Speaker 1: world that I'm trying to live in with my players.
Speaker 2: To get them.
Speaker 1: I immediately screenshoted these sports slides and sent it to
Speaker 1: the kid that double buggy two holes at the state championship.
Speaker 1: I was like, do you see now, do you understand
Speaker 1: how important it is to play the game. So scratch golfers,
Speaker 1: single digit handicapped golfers don't make a ton of birdies.
Speaker 1: They just don't. Birdies are hard to make. So again,
Speaker 1: going back to the first thing we talked about, realistic expectations. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you Berty won of the par fives, that's bonus.
Speaker 1: But bertie one of the par fives and play the
Speaker 1: other three in bogie, And I'm telling you add it
Speaker 1: all up. Do that for a year, do that for
Speaker 1: a summer, Do that for a period of time. But
Speaker 1: just say, listen, I'm trying to break a hundred for
Speaker 1: the first time. Try to make a bogie every hole.
Speaker 1: I promise you it's gonna work. It's going to help
Speaker 1: you get better. And then obviously I've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: but I think this is really really powerful as well.
Speaker 1: Eight feet on the PGA Tour is where the make
Speaker 1: rate goes fifty to fifty eight feet. So if you're
Speaker 1: not a PGA Tour player, you don't play on DP World,
Speaker 1: if you don't play on Live, you don't play in Asia,
Speaker 1: you don't play on the LPGA, you don't play on
Speaker 1: the Champs. If you're not on one of those tours.
Speaker 1: Eight feet is where it's fifty to fifty. These are
Speaker 1: stats from Mark Brody. Three feet tour players ninety six
Speaker 1: percent scratch golfers, ninety three percent ninety shooter eighty four
Speaker 1: percent five feet for tour players seventy seven percent scratch
Speaker 1: golfers sixty six percent five feet according to the data
Speaker 1: for I would say for the average, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen in higher. I think five feet you're probably
Speaker 1: at fifty to fifty from a make standpoint. Based off
Speaker 1: of data, so if you miss one, don't beat yourself up.
Speaker 1: By the time we get to the PGA Tour fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty, which is eight feet, the average ninety shooter
Speaker 1: is at twenty seven percent. Ten feet PGA Tour players
Speaker 1: are at forty percent. If you're shooting in the nineties,
Speaker 1: you're at ten feet, you're at around twenty percent. And
Speaker 1: so twenty feet on the PGA Tour make percentage just
Speaker 1: fifteen percent. And I just see so many regular recreational
Speaker 1: handicapped golfers. They're just too hard on themselves, and they
Speaker 1: don't expect what the data says their game should produce. Right,
Speaker 1: they think they're going to make every ten footter they
Speaker 1: look at. They expect to make it from twenty feet.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The numbers just plummet the further you get away from
Speaker 1: the hole. So realistic expectations. How do you get real
Speaker 1: life stick expectations of your game? And I think that
Speaker 1: takes some honesty. I think it takes putting a little
Speaker 1: bit of your ego on the shelf. But the data
Speaker 1: is all out there, right, I mean, if you want
Speaker 1: to search these stats, these numbers, all this information, you
Speaker 1: find it on the internet, right, you can search it,
Speaker 1: and I think knowledge is power, right. But some of
Speaker 1: the just basic things that we touched on today are legit,
Speaker 1: legit ways that you can lower your scores, that your
Speaker 1: handicaps can get lower, that you can hit more fairways,
Speaker 1: hit more greens. I mean, one of the easiest ways
Speaker 1: to hit more fairways is if you struggle to hit
Speaker 1: fairways with your driver, maybe choose a different club. Right,
Speaker 1: the game of golf, there isn't other than the rules
Speaker 1: of golf governing scoring. You know, penalties and the rules
Speaker 1: of the game. The way you can play the game
Speaker 1: is infinite, right. There are a million different variations on
Speaker 1: how you can play a Part three. You can do
Speaker 1: what tour players do. Hit it to twenty feet, make
Speaker 1: the putt right, hit it to twenty feet, miss the putt,
Speaker 1: two putt, and get out with par Do that on
Speaker 1: a par four, You do that on par five. But
Speaker 1: how you go about doing that, what clubs you're hitting,
Speaker 1: what strategy you're using, and how you're employing that strategy
Speaker 1: based off of your skill set, your handicap, what you
Speaker 1: are good at, what you are not good at, what
Speaker 1: you're comfortable with, what you're not comfortable with, and I
Speaker 1: just don't see a lot of players going to the
Speaker 1: golf course and kind of trying to ride the things
Speaker 1: that they're comfortable with and they're good at.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: We practice golf on the driving range, right, We do
Speaker 1: not practice golf on the golf course. When we're on
Speaker 1: the golf course, we are playing golf. We are playing
Speaker 1: the game of golf. The game of golf is one
Speaker 1: of the great things that everybody loves about golf. One
Speaker 1: of the things that is nostalgic about golf. One of
Speaker 1: the things that is iconic about golf is that it
Speaker 1: has rules, right, and you call penalties on yourself, and
Speaker 1: if you hit one out of bounds, you've got to
Speaker 1: go back to the tee. Right, All of the rules
Speaker 1: that govern penalty shots, all the rules about where you
Speaker 1: have to play from the tee markers. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're three inches a foot in front of the tea markers,
Speaker 1: someone in your group is going to tell your tea
Speaker 1: and off in front of the tea markers. Right, So
Speaker 1: everybody knows what the rules are. But there is an
Speaker 1: infinite amount of ways to play each hole that you play. Right,
Speaker 1: first hole, you could top a driver have to bust
Speaker 1: a three wood and then with an iron.
Speaker 2: Hol it out.
Speaker 1: That is the same score. So you could top a
Speaker 1: driver or three wood, then have to hit another shot
Speaker 1: to get somewhere close and then chip in that three
Speaker 1: looks the exact same as if Rory McElroy hammers a
Speaker 1: drive down there three sixty, hits a wedge to two
Speaker 1: feet and taps it in right. It is the same thing.
Speaker 1: It is the same score. Now how you got to
Speaker 1: that score is very different. But that is a conversation
Speaker 1: for after you're done playing golf, right, not while you're
Speaker 1: playing golf right. You do that afterwards. You evaluate. You
Speaker 1: look at your practice, You look at the things that
Speaker 1: you're good at, look at the things you're not good at.
Speaker 1: If you're not a good driver of the golf ball,
Speaker 1: work on hitting hybrids off tees, and then say, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't drive it that great, so I'm just going
Speaker 1: to get the ball in play with my three wood.
Speaker 1: Maybe get a driving iron. So let's say you hit
Speaker 1: your seven iron one hundred and fifty yards right, and
Speaker 1: you could tee off with that. So if you hit
Speaker 1: it twice off the tee and then again and you
Speaker 1: hit it your distance right, let's just some round numbers.
Speaker 1: That's three hundred yards as opposed to trying to hit
Speaker 1: a three hundred yard drive. So whatever distance. Let's say
Speaker 1: you hit your seven iron one hundred and thirty five yards,
Speaker 1: you hit two of those right, hit one off the te,
Speaker 1: get it and play, then hit another one, so that
Speaker 1: would equal up to around two hundred and seventy yards.
Speaker 1: So you got a four hundred yard Part four, you
Speaker 1: get hit seven iron off the te, seven iron again,
Speaker 1: and if you hit it, whatever.
Speaker 2: That distance is, think about that.
Speaker 1: Think about how far you hit your five iron, Think
Speaker 1: about how far you hit your six iron. Think about
Speaker 1: how far you hit all of kind of five iron
Speaker 1: down right, and then look at the course that you're
Speaker 1: going to play, Look at the par fours that you're
Speaker 1: going to play, Look at the par five's that you're
Speaker 1: going to play. Right, So you have a five hundred
Speaker 1: yard par five and you hit a seven iron off
Speaker 1: the te one hundred and fifty yards, you got three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards left. Then you hit another seven iron.
Speaker 1: The math starts to add up to where you're getting
Speaker 1: closer to the hole, but you're hitting golf clubs that
Speaker 1: you can control. And I think each and every one
Speaker 1: of you listening has your own game, right, has your
Speaker 1: own skill set, your own toolbox, your own physical abilities,
Speaker 1: your own years playing golf, your own natural talent, your
Speaker 1: own athletic ability, all of those things, right, But maybe
Speaker 1: think about playing golf more logically, and you go out
Speaker 1: and play nine holes and take your driver and your
Speaker 1: three wood, take all of your woods out of the bag,
Speaker 1: and then you'd have hybrid's left and you'd have irons left,
Speaker 1: and say, all right, look at the last time you
Speaker 1: played nine holes, look at what your last score was.
Speaker 1: And then go play with no driver, no three wood,
Speaker 1: no five wood, no four ward, just irons, some hybrids, wedges,
Speaker 1: and look at what you shoot, look at what you score,
Speaker 1: and I think you will be surprised at you'll definitely
Speaker 1: probably get the ball and play more often. So whatever
Speaker 1: your favorite club is to practice with, right, I think
Speaker 1: most people that's kind of in that eight seven Maybe
Speaker 1: it'd a push six iron, but I think everybody's kind
Speaker 1: of in that eight to seven range. Maybe some higher
Speaker 1: handicap golfers it's a nine iron, but I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people feel pretty comfortable playing with seven iron. Well,
Speaker 1: how about just played all the poor fours, t off
Speaker 1: with the seven iron, and then hit another seven iron,
Speaker 1: and then see where that leaves you and see if
Speaker 1: you can then say, all right, let me hit this
Speaker 1: on the green and give myself a chance to putt
Speaker 1: for part.
Speaker 2: I miss it.
Speaker 1: I get out of here with bogie. But there is
Speaker 1: no right way to play golf. There is no right
Speaker 1: way to play golf, And to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: there's not really a right way to swing the golf club,
Speaker 1: because if there was, everybody would swing the golf club
Speaker 1: the same way. So I really liked what I saw.
Speaker 1: You know, this this tweet from Practical Golf. It's a
Speaker 1: good follow a lot of good information, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to expand on it because as soon as I
Speaker 1: saw it, I'm like, yeah, that's exactly great information that
Speaker 1: regular recreation golfers need to hear. But if they actually
Speaker 1: really look at it and understand it, they can maybe
Speaker 1: change the way that they play golf. And if they
Speaker 1: change the way they play the game of golf, maybe
Speaker 1: that will help reduce scores, lower your handicap. Maybe there
Speaker 1: is more to it than just pounding golf balls on
Speaker 1: the driving range. Massively important. You need to have a
Speaker 1: decent golf swing. Gave a lesson this morning to a player,
Speaker 1: higher handicap player who was just really really struggling. I
Speaker 1: mean just legs were moving around all over the place.
Speaker 1: Feet were moving around all over the place. As a
Speaker 1: result of the legs moving around, balance was off a
Speaker 1: lot of club place manipulation. That was an example of
Speaker 1: a player to where we had to say, listen, these
Speaker 1: are basics. Now you have lost kind of your ability
Speaker 1: to get club ball contact, to hit the golf ball solid.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to the beginning. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to hitting some wedges. Let's go back to hitting some
Speaker 1: bumping runs. Get you contact back, get your feel back,
Speaker 1: all of that, regardless of that, right, regardless of what
Speaker 1: I'm working on with a player and a lesson, regardless
Speaker 1: of what they're working on in the range on the range,
Speaker 1: when they go to the range by themselves, if they
Speaker 1: are going to play golf, they have to go to
Speaker 1: the golf course with whatever golf swing they've got. They're
Speaker 1: not going to show up to the golf course and
Speaker 1: have Nelly Corda's golf swing. If you're a twenty five
Speaker 1: handicapper and decide to practice all week and work on it,
Speaker 1: and work on it, work on it. You have what
Speaker 1: you have.
Speaker 2: You're not going to go to.
Speaker 1: The first t and become Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McElroy, Scottie Scheffler,
Speaker 1: Max Homer.
Speaker 2: We can keep going right.
Speaker 1: You are who you are, and you have your skill set.
Speaker 1: You have your toolbox. Find out what that is, find
Speaker 1: out the things that you're comfortable with, that you're good at,
Speaker 1: the distances that you hit solid shots from, and then
Speaker 1: just ride that stuff. Ride it as long as you
Speaker 1: can stay on that horse.
Speaker 2: Just ride what you have.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to break a hundred for the first time,
Speaker 1: you are going to have a club in your bag
Speaker 1: that you have confidence in. So play to those clubs,
Speaker 1: play to those strengths. And I really liked the stuff
Speaker 1: that I saw from Practical Golf John Truman. I just
Speaker 1: liked it. I think it's good. I love a lot
Speaker 1: of his stuff, and I wanted to give him a
Speaker 1: shout out, but also just expand on some of the
Speaker 1: information because I think it's power, and you know, having
Speaker 1: this kind of knowledge on how far you need to
Speaker 1: hit the golf ball, where you need to hit the
Speaker 1: golf ball, what club selection you're using. Those are all
Speaker 1: the things that go into playing the game, not practicing
Speaker 1: the game. So I can't thank everybody enough for listening, rate, review,
Speaker 1: subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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